Tool for operating upon jar-covers.



No. 810,984 PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906 W. 0. SMITH.

TOOL FOR OPERATING UPON JAR COVERS. APPLIOATION FILED MAE.13, 1905.

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peculiar means for reshaping jar-covers after 15.

PATENT curios.

"WIL ARD (1. SMITH, or COLDWATER, MICHIGAN, assienoa OF ONE- l HALF TO FRANK e. NOYEs, or COLDWATER, MICHIGAN.

TOOL FOR OPE-RATINGUPON'JAH-COVEHS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed March 18,1905. Serial No. 249.881.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, WILLARD (1. SMITH, a

'citizen of the United States, residing at Goldwater, inthe county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tools for Operating i upon Jar-Covers, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention consists of a tool-for operating upon JflT-zCOVGI'S and embodying a construction susceptible of use in the capacity of a wrench for'removing the covers, the invention residing particularly in the provision of the same have been 'bent out of proper shape or mutilated to a certain extent in a similar For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowling drawings.

edge'of the details of construction ofthe means for effecting the result reference isto be had to the following description and accompany- While the invention may be adapted to different forms and conditions by changes in the structure and minor details without departing from the spirit or essential features thereof,-

still the preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, on which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the preferred'embodiment of the invention. Fig.

2'is plan view. Fig.3 is a side elevation.

Corresponding and like parts are-referred to in -the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

To secure the utmost simplicity and cheap: ness in the construction of the invention, it is preferred to utilize a single length of wire in constructing the same, said wire being of suitable gage to eflectively answer the purposes of the invention. 1

The device consists of a body 1' and handles 2, and in making the same the wire or strip of material is first bent to form the body, which is of approximately circular formation, so as to readily embrace the circular covering 'ofa jar, thehandles 2, constituting the end portions of the wire, being bent at an angle to the body 1 and arranged in spaced relation. Adjacent the points where the handles 2 join the body 1 the parts 1 and 2are flattened, as shown at 3, so as to'make the structure more rigid.

"used again.

The handles 2, which may bepgrasped in reducing the size of the body 1 to cause the latter to clamp or positively engage a part to be removed, are spaced as above mentioned and diverge in relative arrangement from the prints at which the handles join the body.

' The divergent relation of the handles 2 facilitates grasping the same and pressing them together in order to reduce the diameter of the body'l in the manner above'mentioned. The outer extremities of the handles 2 curve inwardly or toward each other, so as. to admit of firmly grasping the handles when operating the wrench. a

At a point between the ends of each handle 2 saidhandle is provided with an inclined notch 4:, which forms a projecting nib 5. The nibs 5 constitute rim-engaging members and are adapted to be engaged with the rim portion of a jar-cover in order to bend the same outwardly or inwardly, as necessary, after the'cover has' been bent out of shape. In order that the cove'rjmay'be applied, it is of course necessary that the same be perfectly round, and often this part in being handled is dropped-and bruised or dented, necessitating bending the same into shape before it may be The notches 4 will readily receive the rim portion of the cover, and the nibs 5 afford engaging members for readily accomplishing the result which has been before described- When a very'large dent has been made in a cover or lid of a jar, both of the nibs 5 may be used in restoring the cover to its original shape, and the handles 2 may be manipulated so as to move the nibs 5 toward and from each other in order to engage a greater or less portion of the part which is being reshaped. The nibs 5 are of course at equal distances from the extremities of the handles 2. ,7

It will of course be understood that the wrench is susceptible of use for replacing the -covers of receptacles as well as for removing the wrench is provided with roughened, scrrated, or toothed portions 6 near the points where the handles QeXtend therefrom, said roughened portions being upon the inner side of the body and forming means for positively gripping or biting into the lid or cover of a receptacle in turning said lid.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A tool for operating upon jar-covers, comprising a single length of spring-wire bent to form the semicircular body 1, and having the terminals thereof extended to form the bandles 2 arranged in divergent relation, the portions of the body 1 and the handles 2 adjacent the point of jointure being flattened as indicated at 3, each handle 2 being provided with the jar -cover-rin1engaging' member 5 at a point between its ends, said rim-engaging members being located substantially the same WILLARD (3. SMITH.

Witnesses:

MARGARET Mormon CHAS. W. CHAMPION. 

